Personalized broadcast news navigator

Abstract

A system and method are provided that use explicitly and implicitly derived models of user information needs and content and presentation preferences together with relevancy feedback to expand a user's original query to the most related terms in a corpus and / or to allow the user to provide interactive feedback to enhance the relevance of selected news stories and display profile of the selected news stories. By personalizing both the selection of stories and the form in which they are delivered, users are provided with tailored broadcast news.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention is related to systems and methods for optimizing retrieval and review of Broadcast News via a computer network. [0003] 2. Background Art [0004] Broadcast news sources and newspapers provide society with the vast majority of real-time information. Unfortunately, cost efficiencies and real-time pressures demand that producers, editors, and writers select and organize content for stereotypical audiences. [0005] Therefore, what is needed is content understanding, user modeling, and tailored presentation that generates personalcasts through tracking and / or inferring user content interests and display preferences. BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0006] An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for dynamically customizing search results (e.g., differences in display and / or content profiles) comprising (a) accessing a display profile corresponding to a user, (b) using a content profile to...

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Benefits of technology

[0007] Another embodiment of the present invention provides a system for dynamically customizing a display profile and a content profile used to identify and control display of search results to a user, comprising an authenticator device for authenticating the user, an accessing device for accessing the display profile corresponding to the user, a searching device for searching that uses the co

Problems solved by technology

Unfortunately, cost efficiencies and real-time pressures demand that producers, editors, and writers select and organize content for stereotypical audiences.

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